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Samadrishti (the vision of oneness)

 

Week 19, Chapter 6, shloka 22-32

The attainment of yoga grants such a state to a yogi, that his attention remains liberated from the feel of agony/sorrow; remains liberated even when the body is destroyed by a weapon or is burnt in the fire. The attention remains engulfed in the divinity and the joy of the spirit such that it forgets the rest of the experiences related to physical body or material world.

When a seeker is determined, his attention is stable and drives back to the spirit; and in case the attention is unstable and strays away- then let it be…for the power of determination will bring it back to the spirit again and again.

When a seeker accepts the omnipresent nature of the supreme spirit, he in a way accepts the principle of singularity and by accepting this, he leads a life where he is eventually driven towards the attainment of the principle by assuming the same. And thus, he becomes one with Me and becomes omnipresent. Such a being sees his own reflection in the whole world. He is indifferent to pleasures and sorrow, the right-doings and wrong-doings/ auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of the actions become the part of his own being (his attention goes out beyond such ideas). Thus, this kind of a vision that is in harmony with the spirit sees oneness in everyone and everything; the yogi becomes ‘vishwaroop’ (the embodiment of the whole world). And this is what I tell you—to worship such a vision and try to attain the same.


P.S. covering shloka 33 onwards in the next article so as not to disrupt the continuity of the dialogue.

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